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By increasing the speed and accuracy for NGS data analysis like whole genome sequencing (WGS), our computing platform makes it easier to discover links between DNA sequence variations and human disease.»

The man responsible for one of the original sequences of the human genome as well as the team that brought you the first living cell running on human - made DNA now hopes to harness algae to make everything humanity needs.

Their work has made it increasingly clear that for all the popular attention devoted to genome - sequencing projects, the epigenome is just as critical as DNA to the healthy development of organisms, humans included.

Experiments on it have illustrated what genes are made of, confirmed Darwinian evolution, and helped sequence the human genome.

These retroviral gene sequences make up about 8 per cent of the human genome, and are part of what is called non-coding DNA because they don't contain genetic instructions to make proteins.

The sequencing of the human genome has made it possible: nowadays scientists can discover potential disorders for which there are no known patients.

The rationale for sequencing and exploring the human genome — to revolutionize the finding of new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines, and to tailor treatments to the genetic make - up of individuals — is the same today.

Wheat and its wild ancestors have genomes much larger than humans, which makes sequencing difficult.

His first book related the story of how he led a private effort that raced a government - funded consortium to decipher the DNA sequence that makes up the human genome.

«The Neandertal genome sequence just by itself will not tell us what makes humans special, it will always be in conjunction with other work that really addresses the biology of a specific change,» he says.

Sequencing the human genome cost roughly $ 500 million, and essentially all that scientists had to show for the money was a long string of letters that make up human DNA.

That map was constructed before the human genome was sequenced, which made it hard to place genetic markers in the right order.

A New World monkey joins a growing list of primate species with sequenced genomes, improving genomicists» ability to tell what genes make primates — and humans — unique.

Since the sequencing of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers have been trying to figure out which parts of the genome made some people more likely to develop certain diseases.

How the Human Genome Project will sequence the 3 billion pairs of chemical bases that make up our DNA strands

Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99 % of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.

Whereas the first sequencing of the 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the human genome took many years and cost tens of millions of dollars, today your genome can be sequenced and digitized in minutes and at the cost of only a few hundred dollars.

These require grantees to make public on a weekly basis raw information taken directly from sequencing machines — more detailed data than were required from human genome sequencers.

He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing organisms of little medical importance, and into human genome sequencing, also of limited value for a company like HGS that is interested in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).

The sequencing of the human genome (ScienceNOW, 14 April 2003:) gave scientists major new insights into what makes us human: Although we share more than 98 % of our genetic code with the chimpanzee, natural selection has turned us into a very different animal than the chimps, from whom our hominid ancestors split evolutionarily some 6 million years ago (ScienceNOW, 31 August).

«We are confident that NHGRI grantees will continue to make major breakthroughs in the development of technologies that will eventually lead to the ability to sequence a human genome for $ 1,000 or less,» NHGRI Director Eric D. Green said.

In the post-genomic era, we are witnessing significant advances in the functional decipherment of the human genome sequence that have been made possible by new technological developments in the field of genomic medicine.

This expertise is coming into its own in the internationally collaborative 1000 Genomes Project: «While the genome sequence is what makes us human, it's the differences in the genome sequences between all of us that are really the interesting part,» says Paul.

The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago affected the genetic make - up of populations across East Africa.

It was widely held that sequencing the human genome would uncover all that was needed to understand how the human body works, what makes us human, and why we differ from each other.

She has made an important contribution to several international research consortia in human genomics, including the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, the 1000 Genomes Project and led the RNA - sequencing work of the Geuvadis Consortium.

Over 100,000 genomes of individual humans (based on various estimates) have been sequenced allowing for deep insights into what makes individuals and families unique and what causes disease in each of us.

Most of that is by design: the 1,000 Genomes Project generated and made available sequence data for more than 1,000 individuals in an effort to further characterize human genetic variation.

Biology went that route with the launch of the Human Genome Project, the international effort to determine the sequence of 6 billion molecular «letters» that make up humanHuman Genome Project, the international effort to determine the sequence of 6 billion molecular «letters» that make up humanhuman DNA.

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One sequence, called Alu, has copied itself a million times and makes up some 10 percent of the human genome.

We have the capability of sequencing genomes, the part of your cells that make a human a human or a Roma tomato a Roma tomato.